Kingdom of Heaven 2005 quotes, page 3

73 quotes · 13 characters
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Characters
Balian of Ibelin 32 quotes
Godfrey of Ibelin 16 quotes
Hospitaller 9 quotes
Sybilla 7 quotes
Saladin Ghassan Massoud · 5 quotes
Tiberias Jeremy Irons · 4 quotes
Reynald Brendan Gleeson · 3 quotes
Sibylla Eva Green · 3 quotes
Bishop 1 quote

Most scenes together: Balian of Ibelin & Hospitaller (4), Godfrey of Ibelin & Balian of Ibelin (3), Balian of Ibelin & Sybilla (3)

Kingdom of Heaven quotes

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[To Balian working on sharpening swords in the town blacksmith forge]

The village does not want you. When the old lord is dead, they will drive you out. When the bishop is dead, it is certain.

Balian

And you take my property.

The Church.

Balian

You.

They would have taken you to Jerusalem... away from... all this. I arranged it. I swear to you... you will have no peace so long as you stay here. No man ever needed a new world more. Imagine your sin and pain erased. All. [Balian takes out a sword and starts malleablizing it] If you take the Crusade... you may relieve your wife's position in hell. I put it delicately. She was a suicide. She is in hell. Though what she does there without a head... [Balian notices priest's cross necklace, holds it up and impales him with sword throwing him onto fire, Balian takes the necklace with priest leaping out igniting the forge]

[After the Saracen army withdraws from its attack on Kerak]

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Imam

Why did you retire? Why? God did not favour him. God alone determines the results of battles.

The results of battles are determined by God...but also by preparation, numbers, the absence of disease and the availability of water. One cannot maintain a siege with the enemy behind. How many battles did God win for the Muslims before I came? That is, before God determined I should come.

Imam

Few enough. That's because we were sinful

[Scoffs]

It is because you were unprepared.

Imam

If you think that way, you shall not be king for long.

When I'm not king, I quake for Islam.

[Sybilla approaches Balian holding a light]

Why do you think I'm here?

I know that Ibelin is not on the way to Cana.

What else do you know, my lord?

I know you are a princess. And I am no lord.

You're a knight.

Neither earned nor proved.

I am not here with you because I'm bored or wicked. I am here because, because in the East between one person and another... there is only light.
[Then Sybilla blows out the light and...]

Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright, that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong; that is your oath. [Slaps Balian] And that is so you remember it. Rise a knight, and Baron of Ibelin.

But this isn't adultery. It's washing. But if it were adultery... which it isn't... the Commandments are not for people like us. They are for the others.

Come forward. I am glad to meet Godfrey's son. He was one of my greatest teachers. He was there when, playing with the other boys, my arm was cut. And it was he, not my father's physicians, who noticed that I felt no pain. He wept when he gave my father the news, that I am a leper.

Come. Sit. Do you play? The whole world is in chess. Any move can be the death of you. Do anything except remain where you started and you can't be sure of your end.

Defend the King.... If the King is no more save the people..... You are all that survives me... Do not let me down.

I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God. I've seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves. And goodness - what God desires - is here [points to Balian's head] and here [points to Balian's heart] and by what you decide to do every day you will be a good man...or not.

If the ribs are broken, the marrow will enter the blood and you will develop fever and die or a cyst will form and you will live. You're in the hands of God.